{"id":14488,"date":"2013-12-30T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14488"},"modified":"2013-12-30T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T08:00:49","slug":"required-reading-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14488","title":{"rendered":"Required Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2013\/12\/27\/ask-ethan-17-the-burden-of-proof\/\">Ask Ethan #17: The Burden of Proof<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps no word in the English language generates as much misunderstanding as the word <strong>theory<\/strong>. In scientific circles, this word has a very specific meaning that\u2019s different from everyday use, and \u2014 as a theoretical astrophysicist myself \u2014 I feel it\u2019s my duty to help explain exactly what we mean when we use it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An excellent piece on what it means to have a theory vs a law vs an hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask Ethan #17: The Burden of Proof Perhaps no word in the English language generates as much misunderstanding as the word theory. In scientific circles, this word has a very specific meaning that\u2019s different from everyday use, and \u2014 as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}